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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1968
Page
2
Funeral services announced for Margaret M. Headley 81 at Jones Funeral Home with burial at Lebanon Church Cemetery. Leatha Ashwood 78, Rest WV, dies at Winchester Memorial Hospital. service at Omps Funeral Home with burial Mount Hebron. Howard W. White dies. service at John H. Enders Funeral Home Berryville with burial Green Hill Cemetery Stephens City.
The Frederick County Taxpayers Association will meet Monday at 8 p.m. in the county courthouse. President Robert A. Luttrell said the meetings are open and all taxpayers are invited.
Lester C Whitacre 63 formerly of Capon Bridge W Va died yesterday in a Weston hospital Born May 5 1905 he was a son of Arthur and Ollie Whitacre He is survived by two sisters Edna Long St Petersburg Fla and Virgie Haines Keyser W Va Ducted tomorrow at 2 pm at Fairview Lutheran Church Capon Bridge by Dr J F Omps Pallbearers named Burial in church cemetery The body lies at Giffin Funeral Home Capon Bridge and will be moved to the church 30 minutes before service
Mrs Katherine Rebecca Hor bert Riffle aged 40 of 204 Baker Street died Thursday at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Born in Buchannan West Virginia on June 28, 1929 a graveside service will be held Monday at 3 30 PM at Mount Hebron Cemetery conducted by Rev Edward Taylor. Friends may call at Jones Funeral Home.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference urged members not to vote for the Republican ticket and adopted a wait and see stance on Democrats. The group condemned Nixon and Agnew, signaling support for the Democratic ticket only if it calls for an immediate Vietnam war end and poverty elimination. A separate resolution urged an immediate cease fire in Vietnam.
Treasury Secretary Fowler says progress in the balance of payments should not halt further measures. The Federal Reserve orders banks to cut foreign assets by 650 million to sustain the trend.
Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu praised Czechoslovakia's reform course during a goodwill visit, urging Communist bloc parties to settle their differences in common talks. He and Ludvik Svoboda signed a 20 year friendship treaty and urged West Germany to repudiate the 1938 Munich Pact. Dubcek affirmed continued Warsaw Pact ties with the Soviet Union.
In South Vietnam near Gio Linh Marine and ARVN units enter the southern DMZ sector after a major clash. North of Pleiku City a U.S. convoy was ambushed, with 41 enemy killed and two Americans wounded.
A project costing 75374 to aid 258 educationally disadvantaged children in Frederick County has been approved under Title I. The preventive improvement program will run through the 1968 69 school year and provide reading special education and speech therapy for first through seventh graders.
Memphis experts filed motions in the James Earl Ray murder case against Dr. Martin Luther King Jr seeking to drop the first degree indictment due to pervasive publicity. A Sept. 6 hearing was set on motions including access to witnesses and open evidence for the defense before the trial, set to begin November 12.
Rescue workers hunted for more victims in the smoldering ruins of a fireworks factory after a Friday blast. At least 28 died, 23 found in Ibi, with five more deaths overnight, and officials warn of further discoveries as investigators probe a percussion cap store as a possible cause.
A wave of firebombing, looting, and window smashing struck St Petersburg's south side during the citys first full scale racial disorder since a garbage strike began. Police reported nine injured and ten men plus two women, all Black, arrested for looting or disturbing the peace. Tear gas dispersed crowds as authorities closed off about 17 blocks. Newsmen were restricted from some areas while allowed entry on foot. Disturbance centered near a Black dance hall after a car carrying whites was hit by rocks.
Mrs. Betty Kreuger moved to a new home and found her car missing after a second load. Police spotted the car, an antennae rising from a creek, where it had rolled 250 feet downhill into the water.
Partly cloudy tonight with scattered thunderstorms then clearing. Low 64 to 70. Sunday cooler with high 78 to 83 and decreasing humidity. Monday fair and mild with similar conditions. Sunset 8 06 p.m. Sunrise 6 28 a.m. New Moon Aug 23.
Rainfall data cover the past 24 hours to 8 a m and year to date figures. Historic five year monthly totals listed 1963 to 1967 with averages, and long term monthly and yearly averages are provided for decades and 65 years.
Police charged William Harrison and Elvin Billman, both 22 and 31, with first degree murder after a Negro woman, Mrs. Willie Roberts, 50, was killed during riot conditions in Avondale. SNiper fire and police arreste d others as crowds clashed, injuring at least four, with two in critical condition.
More than 5,400 cab drivers walked out affecting Yellow and Checker cabs leaving about 20 percent of Chicago’s fleet in operation nine days before the Democratic National Convention. Talks with federal mediators failed. unions accuse management of lockout while companies blame price hikes.
Floyd M. Riddick of Manassas won his point twice as his Devon cattle swept the top honors at the Prince William County Fair. Riddick claimed grand champion bull and grand champion cow while Sen. Wayne Morse won reserve champion honors in both categories.
A compact set of items lists a soldier and a series of terms including rubber and the Monroe Doctrine. Other entries name Ghana Egypt Boston Nathan Hale and a later item refers to Father William and mineral.
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